It’s 2:08am in Singapore. Our flight to Barcelona has left at 11:30pm and we are not in it.
A faulty hydraulic delayed our Jakarta to Singapore flight for 2 hours and instead of an hour and a half’s worth of layover in Singapore, this delay will cause us to stay for two days in the Merlion City. This in turn causes us to lose our two days in Valencia. Such is the domino effect of this whole fiasco.
When traveling, delayed flights and lost luggage are the two greatest equalizers. Yes, even for business class travelers.
The queue for flight rebooking has not moved for almost an hour now, with a lot of flights fully booked in the next two days. The business class lounge had ZERO people after midnight (I am calling you out, Singapore Airlines), and the ground staff seemed to be unprepared, despite the 3-hour lead time that the airline already knows of the delay.
In short, I don’t see this blunder getting fixed until four in the morning.
I’m tired, I need a shower and I have a lot of time in my hands, ergo the blogging and probably reading some app dev porn from my tech agile stream.
What else is there to do?
One thing I have learned from my travels is that I just get more exhausted from bitching and getting angry about delayed flights and lost luggage (another debacle experienced during my trip to Italy).
Patience is not one of my greatest virtues but I have learned to adjust and make-do with the cards that I’m dealt with, especially if there’s really nothing I can do about it.
While Arshad is patiently in line (thank God for resilient travel partners and husbands), I am sat here in Coffee Bean writing and eventually clearing out some of my readings.
The cliche’ “when life gives you lemons, get vodka and make lemoncillo” (or is it a different one?) holds very true.
So Singapore it is in the next two days. Marina Bay Sands, here we go!
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